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by ramraj07 979 days ago
Can you mention some legal things you solved with it? Just curious!
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climb_stealth 979 days ago
I'm not GP but I have used it to debug my car remote. It was unlocking but not locking. Used the Flipper to confirm that the remote wasn't sending anything on lock button presses. Solved it with opening up the key and some cleaning of the PCB. Was very helpful there as it was otherwise quite tricky to work out where the problem was.

Otherwise haven't found any use for it. I wanted to use it to clone my garage remote but couldn't get it to work.

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15457345234 978 days ago
You could have used a SDR for that, which is a fairly interesting piece of kit with - arguably - more wholesome uses than the flipper.
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climb_stealth 978 days ago
Yeah I guess so. Though it's something I'm not familiar with. And the Flipper was something I had at home already. To be fair until then I couldn't find any use for it.

In my opinion the whole appeal of the Flipper is that it bundles a bunch of radio gadgets and makes them easy to use and accessible. Are there better tools for each job? Definitely! But I presume setting up an SDR would have involved a fair bit more research and work. On the Flipper it took five minutes of trying out the different modes.

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adobrawy 975 days ago
Duplicate RFID key for the garbage shelter, because there was only one left when the tenant did not return it after renting it.

After purchasing a new apartment, I almost immediately made a backup of the wireless garage key and the RFID intercom key.

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